Example Sentences

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“Billy knows stuff I don’t know, and I play with people with new information,” said Béla Fleck, the banjoist who has goaded his instrument into novel terrain for a quarter-century.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2021

Recently, however, the Chinese room experiment has goaded me into dwelling on the limits of human cognition.

From Scientific American • Mar. 9, 2021

He has goaded Alec Baldwin, the “Saturday Night Live” impressionist in chief, into a battle of Trumps.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2017

The ECB's purblind refusal to reveal anything about the trip, as if it involved some top-secret military manoeuvres rather than just some abseiling and hiking, has goaded the media into a suspicious reaction.

From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2010

Unfortunately for this secret, Mrs Allonby, one of Lady Hunstanton's guests, has goaded Lord Illingworth into promising to kiss Miss Hester Worsley.

From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell